The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-09
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PARSONS WIFE GIVES Up
SHE SAYS SHE WILL NEVER sEH
HER HUSBAND ALIVE AGAIN.

Near Polling Place.
CHICAGO, Nov S--A loaded dynamite
bomb was found this morning on West
NanBuren street, not far from a polling
| place where voting was in progress. Tbs
bomb was made out OF large gas pips
and was inches long. The ends were
clo.ed with iron taps screwed firmly on. \
fuse was attached at the centre Of the bomb.
! The dark skinned wife of Anarchist Par.
| sons has at last abandoned hope Last
evening She said; My husband is dead to
me, and return home to my children to
mourn for him. | spoke goodbye to him
for the last time this afternoon
for | never will cross thresholds
| of the Jail again to be insulted and
| humiliated Other women can go there and
grovol before the men who turned us out
this afternoon, but will never go until [
can sit at the side of my husband, and talk
with him without an infamous guard at my
side / want to live with the picture of my
husband in dungeon ever before my eyes.
That will give me strength 10 bring up two
revolutionistsn
GIVEN SOME EXERCISE
Spies, Parson, Fielden, Schwab, Fischer
and Engel were let out of their cells at .
| o'clock this morning. and for an hour they
| stretched their legs in the cell house n-
| closure. Every movement of the condemned
men was watched by bailiffs, one of whom
was assigned to each man. The bailiifs
walked up and down the exercising space
| with their charges, whom they did not
| allow more than five or six feet way from
them. They were alert to prevent
| any attempt at violence or suicide. They
were not allowed TO approach any of tha
9th
was served them. While they were eating,
balliifs stood at the cell doors and watched
| thom, and when they were done the knives
and forks and dishes were quickly removed.
All the men except Engel ate with toler-
able appetite.
EACH CELL SEARCHED.
While the men We're exercising each cell
was searched minutely Nothing suspicious
was disclosed. Miss Van zandt and Mrs.
Fischer were the only visitors at the Jail ex-
cept Rev w. II Bolton, of the Methodist
| church. Miss Van Zandt talked to Spies
| three or four minutes with bailiff within
hearing.
Hes like Gagged tiger" said Sheriff
Matson. when Lingg was taken from bis
| cell to give the bailtf a chance to search it.
Two deputies watched him as he strobe up
and down examining the cage with a
nervous movement The jailer took two
metal left to him. As soon as the search
was over, Lingg was bolted in again.
This is the first exercise he had
| been given since the finding of the bombs.
Eight baskets of grapes were brought to ths
Jail. Nothing edible is allowed to go to the
prisoners from the outside for fear of poison
being conveyed to them. The grapes were
sent by John Brown, Jr, and were given
to the wives and friends of the prisoners.
LINGG PaoFEssEs IGNORANCE.
Anarchist Louis Lingg was visited in the
county Jail by Attorney Zeisler this after
noon, at the request of Capt. Black, for the
purpose of obtaining from him statement
in regard to the bombs which were found in
his cell last Sunday. Lingg plumply de.
MED in German that he had any knowledge
of the bombs, and then continuing SAID:
II have and still do refuse TO sign any pc.
tition to the Governor asking for commuta.
ton of my sentence | and a few others
will surely hang, but will not make state.
ment for the benefit of those who have
signed the petition. | hate them for the
course they have taken, and would not even
lift one of my fingers to save them If /
could"
At the conclusion of the interview, Lingg
turned away iii an unconcerned manner and
coolly began whistling. Capt. Black and
Attorney Zeisler, in company with Nina
ference with Spies, Fielden and Schwab in
the lawyers cage, and obtained a for
NAL written declaration that they
had absolutely nothing to do with
the bombs brought to the Jail.
Then for the last time Capt. Black visited
Parsons. Fischer and Engel, in the presence
of Jailer Foz, for the purpose of inducing
them to sign a petition TO Gov. Oglesby
asking for mercy. II was all without avail,
Parsons adding to their determination by
the words: "If the State can afford TO put
me to death, j can afford to die In this
the trio remained immovable, notwithstand-
ing the heartrending scenes that had occur
red few moments before, when the wives
and children of Engel, Fischer and Fielden
despairingly advised the men to sign for
their sakes
PARSONS LETTER.
Instead of the individual letter which ID
was hinted by the members of the Amnesty
Association that Parsons would write de.
ploring, like Spies Schwab and Fielden, the
loss Of life at the Haymarket and abjuring
the use of force, a decided different COM
munication--understood to be Parsons
last plea--was issued over his signaturs
tonight. The document is two columns in
length, and is chiefly remarkable for the
absence Of any reference whatever TO the
massacre at the Haymarket or to the dyna-
mite idea. Parsons addresses the letter to a
locally prominent Socialist, MY dear
friend, George Schilling," and occupies
himself exclusively with a sketch of his
own life, particularly his actions as
leader of the newly liberated negroes
during reconstruction times in Texas.
Schilling will read the letter in full to Gov.
Oglesby tomorrow if the Governor will
permit Parsons closes as follows: "Thus
over very extensive region Of country,
among cotton, corn and sugar plantations,
] became somewhat famous as champion
of political liberty. Beloved by the blacks,
| was hated and scorned by the whites ]
then believed that the colored peo
pie were truly freemen and
that they only needed courage tc
assert it. But did not then understand on
know that economic dependence, !. O., indus
trial servitude, made political liberty i'm
possible, did not know, nor did the blacks,
that they had been merely cmancipatet
from chattel to wage servitude. l did NOT
then know that economic freedom must
he the basis for political liberty
that the wage labor system created
classes, antagonisms and class seryitude
and now, as heroes of old, so called free
blacks. in common with their white breth,
eren, work and die like beasts in the uncees
ing treadmill of wage slavery"
WILL ATTEMPT SUICIDE AGAIN.
A suggestion of revolving incidents tina
may at any moment happen in the county
jail prior to the execution of the Anarchist
was develoned this afternoon when Fnoa'